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In Chicago mayoral runnoff, a financial abuser
*When he led the Chicago school system,
mayoral candidate Paul Vallas
took actions that resulted in more than $1.5 billion being
transferred out of the city’s budget-strapped public schools and to
some of the wealthiest individuals and banks on the planet, a new
report shows.*
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Parents trump teachers, FL
A Florida principal fired was after a Renaissance art class showed
students a
photo of a famous nude statue.
A school board official said that a complaint from any number of
parents — even just one — justifies firing the principal.
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Prescription drug costs, US
Biden had a chance to make a drug company
reduce the price of prostate
cancer drug Astellas
down to what it costs in other advanced countries. He didn't do it.
The article points out that the US government funded the drug's
development. That was what gave Biden a legal opportunity to force
the price down, but morally I don't think it makes a crucial
difference. We should not allow gouging on saving people's lives.
We should eliminate the patent system, especially in medicine,
agriculture and software.
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Private surveillance on public roads, TX
The car tracking company
Flock made a deal with a homeowner's
association
to install surveillance cameras in Lakeway, Texas, without even
consulting or informing the city government.
(The city's thug department did participate in the deal.)
The fact that the government was kept out of the matter is a
additional secondary outrage, but the system itself would be no less
unjust if the city government had approved such tracking.
Tracking people's movements is an injustice,
and the foundation of
repression. No person or entity, whether governmental or private,
should be allowed to track a car except under a warrant ordering
tracking in a specific place for a bounded time.
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Public utility privatization, UK
Privatized water companies in the UK
put profit over the environment.
Somehow I am not surprised. The government agency in charge of them
did not insist that they spend enough to maintain the sewers.
That does not surprise me either. Between lobbying and the revolving door,
it doesn't take much to persuade a plutocratist politician to do what
perse is naturally inclined to do: shaft the non-rich.
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Political campaign stunt
The corrupter expects to be arrested soon, and seeks to
turn the arrest
into a campaign appearance.
Commit crimes against those who are weaker, get arrested,
and call yourself the victim — typical Republican.
Compare with George Santos.
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Political violence sooth, Rwanda
*Hotel Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina to be
released from prison*
in response to US pressure. The US considers his trial for "terrorism"
to be unfair. |
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Anti-strike law, UK
The Tories propose to pass a law that prohibits many groups of workers
from completely striking. Some unions now propose to
strike anyway
and go to jail.
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Cognitive liberty V. psychological warfare
Armies are developing weapons
to attack countries by manipulating how
people think. TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.
The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other
antisocial media platforms can do similar things.
Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on.
Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts
in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people. All that takes
is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.
Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.
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First blood, Cop City
*Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid
shot pepperball gun
into [Manuel Paez Terán]'s tent first.*
This means that the thugs started the shooting. They said he did that.
The article presents reasons to distrust their testimony, in addition
to the likelihood that (being thugs) they are probably habituated to
perjury.
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Political violence, Modi
Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's principal opposition party, was
expelled from Parliament after being
convicted of "defamation"
for insulting Prime Minister Modi.
It was, indeed, rather insulting to all other Indians named Modi.
Gandhi should not have said that. But it is not grounds to put anyone
in prison.
In the US, I am pretty sure that saying that "all thieves have Trump
as their common surname" would not not be slander against Trump. So I
am pretty sure that India's standards for convicting someone of
defamation of a politician are too weak.
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| 12:17p |
Political violence sooth, Rwanda
*Hotel Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina to be
released from prison*
in response to US pressure. The US considers his trial for "terrorism"
to be unfair. |
| 12:17p |
First blood, Cop City
*Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid
shot pepperball gun
into [Manuel Paez Terán]'s tent first.*
This means that the thugs started the shooting. They said he did that.
The article presents reasons to distrust their testimony, in addition
to the likelihood that (being thugs) they are probably habituated to
perjury.
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| 12:17p |
Anti-strike law, UK
The Tories propose to pass a law that prohibits many groups of workers
from completely striking. Some unions now propose to
strike anyway
and go to jail.
|
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Political violence, Modi
Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's principal opposition party, was
expelled from Parliament after being
convicted of "defamation"
for insulting Prime Minister Modi.
It was, indeed, rather insulting to all other Indians named Modi.
Gandhi should not have said that. But it is not grounds to put anyone
in prison.
In the US, I am pretty sure that saying that "all thieves have Trump
as their common surname" would not not be slander against Trump. So I
am pretty sure that India's standards for convicting someone of
defamation of a politician are too weak.
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Cognitive liberty V. psychological warfare
Armies are developing weapons
to attack countries by manipulating how
people think. TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.
The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other
antisocial media platforms can do similar things.
Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on.
Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts
in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people. All that takes
is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.
Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.
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In Chicago mayoral runoff, a financial abuser
*When he led the Chicago school system,
mayoral candidate Paul Vallas
took actions that resulted in more than $1.5 billion being
transferred out of the city’s budget-strapped public schools and to
some of the wealthiest individuals and banks on the planet, a new
report shows.*
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